From: Davide Masserut via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
65509@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65509: [PATCH] Use correct env var when opening frames with freedesktop menu entries
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:46:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il8oodrm.fsf@mssdvd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edjekc1k.fsf@yahoo.com>
Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
> Davide Masserut <dm@mssdvd.com> writes:
>
>> X DEs don't set the $WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable, so
>> querying for it returns an empty string.
>>
>> If I run this in X:
>>
>> emacsclient --alternate-editor= --display=$WAYLAND_DISPLAY
>> .emacs.el
>>
>> the following occurs.
>>
>> When the --display argument is an empty string, Emacs first tries
>> to
>> reuse an exiting frame and, if doesn't find one, it falls back to
>> open it in the same terminal. The problem arises when an instance
>> is
>> launched through the DE facilities: Emacs can't use a terminal as a
>> fallback and therefore it opens in the background without showing
>> the
>> frame.
>>
>> If we decide that handling such case is not worth the trouble, an
>> error in system log should warn the user to use the X backend.
>
> I don't quite follow: if neither of the display environment
> variables
> are present, then Emacs deduces that no display server is running,
> whereupon it resorts to displaying a TTY frame.
Correct. However, that TTY is occupied by the X window manager, which
hides the Emacs interface.
When the argument of --display doesn't exits or is empty, should we
check if $DISPLAY is present in the environment and use its value?
When PGTK is enabled, we could check $WAYLAND_DISPLAY and then
$DISPLAY before resorting to displaying the frame in a terminal or in
a TTY.
I tested this with Gnome and i3, both started from a TTY using startx.
I'm not sure how this behaves when using a display manager.
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2023-08-24 18:32 bug#65509: [PATCH] Use correct env var when opening frames with freedesktop menu entries Davide Masserut via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-31 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-31 11:32 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-01 18:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-01 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-02 16:24 ` Davide Masserut via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-02 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-03 0:59 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-03 5:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-03 6:07 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-03 12:13 ` Davide Masserut via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-03 12:41 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-03 12:48 ` Davide Masserut via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-03 12:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-03 13:00 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-03 13:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-03 13:42 ` Davide Masserut via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-04 0:38 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-05 14:46 ` Davide Masserut via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-09-06 0:07 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-06 14:01 ` Davide Masserut via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-07 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-07 9:26 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-07 9:37 ` Davide Masserut via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-08 15:49 ` Davide Masserut via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-15 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-15 7:12 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-15 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-15 7:44 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-15 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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